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“Ports in a Colonial Situation: Questioning the Relevance of a Concept “Ports in a colonial situation: questioning the relevance of a concept. The case of the French Empire from the 16th to the 20th century” by Pr. Claire Laux, Science-Po Bordeaux Pr. Jean-François Klein, Le Havre university “The only people to dominate the sea were those who established their power alongside the Ocean,” Manuel Sevrim de Faria, 16251 Ports in a colonial situation were the subject of many studies, even before the process of decolonization began. For the most part, these studies were urban monographs, often led by geographers. Very few of the studies gave an imperial explanation, instead they were anchored to a local, colonial scale. The only articles celebrating the grandeur of the Empire were economic reports, used as propaganda tools or strategic information for companies working overseas, all raising awareness of the specific place that one port or another occupied in the system that formed the empire. These articles and studies, more numerous in the 1930s when imperial self-sufficiency was considered a remedy for the global economic crisis, did not continue beyond the Second World War. The years of bloodshed that followed were hardly favourable to this type of study, except in sub-Saharan Africa, and with decolonization complete, a disinterest for colonial issues started to gain ground. The best example of this comes from the 1960s, when Fernand Braudel established Area Studies in France, originally founded in the United States in the 1930s. This field overrode and replaced the scholars of French Imperial History, contrary to Great Britain which maintained its prestigious Imperial Studies. The last to occupy the chair of French imperial history at the Sorbonne was Charles-André Julien, eminent specialist in North Africa, largely engaged, as an academic, in the decolonization process. We have witnessed a systematized, indeed, institutionalized, reinforcement of the disconnection between the motherland “here” and the colonial “elsewhere”2. In fact, studies on colonial ports experienced the full force of this compartmentalisation, which separated studies on the motherland from those on its colonies3 and broke the connections between the 1 “Les seuls qui ont dominé la mer, ont été ceux qui ont assis leur pouvoir à côté de l’Océan” in Djanirah Couto, Histoire de Lisbonne, Paris-Arthème Fayard, 2000, 384 p., p. 382. 2 Jean-François Klein and Marie-Albane de Suremain, “Clio et les colonies. Retour sur des historiographies en situation coloniale”, Romantisme. Revue du dix-neuvième siècle, n° 139, 2008-1, p. 59-80. 3 For convenience, we have grouped all the colonial structures used in the French colonial empire under the term “colonies”, which, let us recall, are essentially protectorates. This includes colonies, protectorates, concessions, factories, a condominium (the New Hebrides), catchment areas where the informal French Empire, to use the term created by Gallagher and Robinson, holds sway. See John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson, “The Imperialism of Free Trade”, in The Economic History Review, Second series, vol. VI, n°1, 1953, pp. 1-15. colonies themselves. As and when they specialized, academics of cultural areas spoke less and less with specialists in other areas. Worse still, over time, a narrowing appeared, an ultra-specialization embracing the creation of the countries born from independence. Therefore, the Vietnam specialists, for example, no longer spoke with the Cambodia specialists or experts on Algeria, Côte-d’Ivoire or on one part of Oceania or another. In fact, historical research lost the thread of the connections that formerly linked the empire, creating a dynamic system comprised of multiple interactions. Nowadays, imperial history is once again the subject of historical research, revisited by the field of New Imperial History in Britain, New Colonial History in the US, and the work that began in France in the 1990s. The latter was largely inspired by the revival of the biographical genre, the Cultural turn and the Anglo-Saxon Transnational turn as well as the Italian microstoria which, with its use of scale, is particularly dynamic. It seeks to understand the movement of people, goods, ideas and practices (military, legal, religious, scholastic, and so on.) within an imperial system4, on the basis of the principle that what makes an empire is not its borders (the map is not the territory) but instead what flows through it. In fact, the interest for these ways of making connections has re-emerged and the role of colonial ports has become central again, falling resolutely under the umbrella of the field of Global and Connected History. Formerly, the monographs on these colonial ports allowed the strength and fluidity of the imperial economy in action to be celebrated. Today, they nourish historians’ reflections on the colonial period and make it possible to unearth, on an imperial scale, the idiosyncrasies of this or that hub of development or, in contrast, of places with a weak connection, or none at all, to the global market. However, it seems that the concept of the colonial port itself has not been investigated systematically. It goes without saying that this concept refers to very varied realities. Indeed, what do the following have in common: a simple trading post for the slave trade, a loge, or trading station, on the coast of India for the spice trade in the early modern period and a large industrial-port complex during the time preceding decolonization? Furthermore, in certain instances, such as in Asia (for example Malacca, Canton), the Maghreb and the Middle East, the colonizer integrated into an existing port network. Yet this was not always the case. The ports of sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania, for example, where coastal or fluviomaritime cities were very often ex nihilo creations, such as Abidjan or Noumea. The fact remains that at a time of a global or, at the very least, connected, history, when the field of New Imperial Studies shows the organic links between ports in a colonial situation and globalisation, an overview study of these themes seems necessary. Considering the colonial port as an operational concept entails highlighting the elements which distinguish it, or not, from many of the motherland ports 4 David Lambert and Alan Lester, Colonial Lives Across the British Empire. Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 396 p. and those overseas which escaped colonial status, as well as from the colonial city in general, which is difficult to define or, in any case, essentialise5, although it may have been studied as such6. This article, intended as a work in progress, aims to present certain recently explored avenues within the framework of a collective project on port themes in the French Empire from the 16th to the 20th century, in relation to colonial and imperial history. Although this article, and the larger project which is broadly outlined within it, focus on the French Empire, forays into other empires are by no means prohibited and a comparative approach is encouraged. This project brings together various historians and historians of art of the early modern and late modern periods: Emilie d’Orgeix, Pierre Guillaume and Alexandre Fernandez of the University of Bordeaux-III; Gérard Le Boëdec of the University of Lorient; David Plouviez, Virginia Chaillot and Jean-François Klein, of the University of Nantes; François-Joseph Ruggiu of the University of Paris-Sorbonne; Bruno Marnot, of the University of La Rochelle; Claire Laux of Sciences Po-Bordeaux. This project also owes much to fruitful discussions with Cécile Vidal and Alain Delissen of EHESS7, and to the support of Caroline Le Mao of the University of Bordeaux-III, the Roland Mousnier Centre (Paris-Sorbonne), CEMMC (University of Bordeaux) and CRHIA (University of Nantes). Lastly, a final epistemological detail: this project, on the whole, comes under the tournant impérial or imperial turn, currently seen in French historiography, which leads to a more systematic investigation of the national past without, from now on, overlooking overseas colonies8. Where to begin? The colonizer’s choice of a “good” port The colonial port is, by definition, firstly anchored to a territory, that of the colony. This idea of territory must be considered in the broadest sense, alongside the questions it brings up: is it possible to identify a morphology specific to these ports? Which geopolitical and geostrategic rationales are at the origin of their foundation and evolution? What relations do they maintain with the forelands and hinterlands of the dominated, or soon-to-be dominated, regions? Note that the concept of foreland in this article refers to the catchment area and the economic relations that a port maintains with the overseas territories with which it is connected. The foreland relies closely on the hinterland, the back- country, which very often determines both the supply and demand of port trade. We can extend this economic concept, frequently used by geographers, to the political and cultural influence that the colonial port exerts on its more or less dominated hinterland, the rest of the empire, the motherland as well as the ports of other empires. Geographical factors play a role at various levels in the choice of the settlement site, and also the development of the port, which is subsequently in a “colonial situation”, to use Georges Balandier’s 5 Hélène Vacher (ed.), Villes coloniales aux XIXe-XXesiècles : d’un sujet d’action à un objet d’histoire, Paris, Éd°. Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005, 191 p., p. 8. 6 See, for example, the very good, recent overview: Odile Goerg, Xavier Huetz de Lemps, La ville coloniale, XVe- XXesiècle, Paris, Seuil, 2012, 464 p. 7 We would like to express our profound thanks to these researchers for their important contribution to our work. 8 Jean-François Klein, “Des écuries aux escaliers d'honneur ? Réflexion sur l’historiographie des colonisations françaises”, Historiens & Géographes, May 2013, n° 423, p.
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